Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:48:21 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Longer usernames? Message-ID: <199606210218.LAA08107@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960620111735.456A-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Jun 20, 96 11:26:52 am
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Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying: > > > > > > What is the general consensus on usernames longer than 8 chars? I've > > > been doing some testing on a -stable system with 16 character usernames, > > > and everything seems to work ok. > > > > NIS won't. > > Really? NIS supports databases of arbitrary key-data pairs. Keys can > be longer than 8 characters. > > On FreeBSD systems, long usernames in /var/yp/master.passwd propogate to > slaves just fine, and if the NIS clients have been built to handle longer > usernames, those users can login too. That's the problem though; other hosts that _don't_ support longer usernames won't be able to interoperate with FreeBSD's NIS. We might as well call it NIS++ then 8) The whole idea behind doing NIS at all is to be able to work in a mixed environment. I appreciate your basic idea though; it would be nice to come up with a solution that didn't involve a complete rebuild to swap from one to the other. > > > Also, I recently noticed that BSDI 2.1 supports 16 character usernames > > > too (UT_NAMESIZE is 16). This means that BSDI 2.1 bins that access wtmp, > > > utmp, etc will not work under FreeBSD. > > > > What do they do about NIS? Truncate the usernames? Bad bad bad. > > BSDI 2.1 doesn't have NIS. Ah. > Tom -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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